Hanging tough

Bob, You are amazing. You have shown us how to live life to the fullest, even when things are not going our way. You are such an example of how to handle tough things and to keep going even when you are tired and worn out. Our children are so very lucky to have you as their father. You are such a great example of courage and strength. Thank you for being such and inspiration to us all. We love you.

Message from the Family Nurse:

Bob has really had his challenges the last few months. He went through three rounds of chemotherapy called RICE and then the PET scan showed he had not yet gone into remission. He had a fourth round of RICE which was tough on him causing alot of fatigue. Within the past few weeks he went through a painful bone marrow biopsy and fortunately the bone marrow was clear of cancer cells. This enabled Bob to go through the necessary injections and treatment to obtain his stem cells from the bone marrow. These treatments caused alot of bone pain but they were able to get the 10,000,000 stem cells needed for the bone marrow transplant. These cells have been frozen for future use. Unfortunately, a recent PET scan showed that Bob was not yet in remission and there are still active cancer cells in his body. Bob's physicians will be consulting with one another to decided what course of treatment is necessary to get him into remission. We don't yet know if that includes more chemo or radiation, but Bob should be told what the next step will be in the next few days. Bob has been courageous, strong and positive in spite of feeling generally lousy. He continues to work but is anxious to get the bone marrow transplant so he can be cancer free once and for all. Please keep him in your prayers so that they can find the right combination of drugs that will get him into remission so that he can have the transplant. Bob, we love you. You are an example to all of us. Our prayers are with you every day.
Love, Leigh Ann

NEVER EVER GIVE UP IN LIFE

Heavenly Father is real, His power is real in our lives!

Dont worry

Rise up this mornin, smiled with the risin sun, three little birds pirtch by my doorstep, singin sweet songs, of melodies pure and true, sayin, this is my message to you BOB!

Dont worry, bout a thing, cuz every little thing is gonna be alright! Bob Marley...

I love you Bob, Tammy, Chris, Aaron and Jake. We are going to beat this thing one way or another!

Bob - Did you ever check out the video I posted?

We got bad news today, Bob is still not in remission so the tranplant is off until they can get the cancer under control. Sounds like more chemo is going to have to happen before they will even consider the transplant. Not very good news.

Is anyone still reading this???

Hi Bob,

Saturday night we had dinner with friends and then we all trekked up the hill to enjoy the Eaglewood golf course carnival and their amazing fireworks display. Afterwards the several thousand people in attendance started to migrate back down the hill. Of course the local police department was there, making sure nothing happened and attempting to direct traffic. If you can picture this, we are walking down the sidewalk, it is dark and there are people everywhere and cars trying to move down the road and pull out into traffic. Up ahead of us a few yards a police car was in the street with its lights flashing, it must have been the first cop J noticed. All of a sudden he shouts at the top of his lungs "all right who called the cops?" we all burst into laughter and all I could say was "just like daddy".

Hope you are hanging in there, I think about you every day.

We love you!